Kate's 7th birthday {finally}

Kate's birthday was June 3rd but it was also the last week of school so it was a hectic week and I never found a few hours to upload photos and post about it.


Kate had school this year on her birthday which was a first for her.  In the past, they have always been out of school by this date.  We woke Kate up on her birthday with her traditional doughnut in bed...

Don't you just love that bed-head/sleepy face?!

After that very nutritious breakfast, we let Kate open a few gifts before school.  

Her Godmother, Aunt Staci sent her this cool craft kit....

And her fairy godmother, Bagel sent her a fabulous watch.  

It makes learning to tell time so much easier for kiddos...

Then it was time for school.  Our school has a fundraiser where you can buy you child a "birthday gram."  Since they usually are out for summer, Kate has never been able to get one on her actual birthday.  Harry and I hung around for the birthday gram.

Then later that day, Will and I brought Kate Chic-fil-a for lunch.
They are awesome brothers!

Instagram shot

 And we brought Italian Ice for her to share with her class.

Goofy girl with her friends..

So, our other birthday tradition is that the peanuts pick whatever they want for dinner.  Sometimes, they pick something I cook.  Sometimes, they pick a restaurant.  Kate picked my favorite hole in the wall Italian place.  I LOVE this place. They have the BEST manicotti EVER! It is truly one of my favorite meals in the whole world.


{phone photo}

Kate got her favorite spaghetti and meatball here.  Their sauce is divine.  It is kind of a funny story how this came to be one of Kate's favorite meals.  See, all of her life Kate had only ever had gluten free pasta.  She is not sensitive to gluten that we know of but some of the rest of us are so I only cook gf pasta at home. One day we were here and she had "real" pasta and she thought she died and went to heaven.  She even asked me why ours at home does not taste this way:)

Unfortunately, Will had to work so he did not get to go out to dinner with us. Kate wanted frozen yogurt after dinner so that is what we had in lieu of birthday cake.



Then we went home and gave Kate some gifs from family.

Harry gave Kate his electric scooter that we gave him a few years ago:)
It was a very generous"regift" and she was thrilled.











Kate wanted some mermaid stuff from Chasing Fireflies.
About a month before her birthday, she saw the catalog and circled a few little things she liked.
 She was very excited when they showed up for her birthday!



We also finally got her a silver charm bracelet.  You might recall if you've been reading the blog that we give Kate a sterling silver charm each year but we were waiting until she was old enough before we got her the bracelet.  Well, she got the bracelet this week and she has not taken it off. She loves it. I plan to photograph it and post it next week.  I am still waiting for this year's charm  (gymnastics) to come in.

I always write a letter to the kids on their birthday too.  I have another post for that along with a little photo shoot I did and a video too.  I am on a roll posting 3 times  on one week!!!  Does anyone still read?  I sure hope so cause this post took me half the day to get done;)